Andrew Mayo

Kisschasy / The Donnas @ ANU Refectory, Tuesday May 27

“I want a song that gets attention, this is the way it goes…” I defy you not to sing along to Kisschasy’s Do-dos & Whoah-ohs. The near-thousand-strong crowd at the band’s recent ANU gig certainly didn’t hold back. And justifiably so - the Melbourne four-piece are riding high at the moment on the back of the success of their second album, Hymns for the Nonbeliever. More importantly, they kick it live.

While the front stalls were made up largely of 18-to-20-year-olds, there was no shortage of fringe-dwelling older folk singing along or nodding their heads in sage approval. But Kisschasy don’t have anything to prove to old farts like me. They do what they do well and rarely fail to deliver. The ANU throng certainly wasn’t disappointed.

Punters enjoyed a healthy serve of tracks from Kisschasy’s debut record, United Paper People, lapping up everything that came their way. Nobody was able to stand still during tunes like This Bed, Face Without a Name and Do-dos & Whoah-ohs.

And yet material from the band’s latest record attracted the strongest response. Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm at Night and Spray on Pants had the crowd - from the stage all the way to the mixing desk - shimmying, gyrating and bouncing along with hands aloft, much to the band’s pleasure. If this show was any indication, don’t expect any tickets to be available at the door of the next Kisschasy show.